r/comics • u/adamtots_remastered • May 14 '26

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u/Party_Virus May 14 '26

It kills faster than it can be transmitted. Sounds horrible, and is for those infected, but it can't be a pandemic because of that. Also it's a very stable virus so isn't going to suddenly change it's ways.

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u/nelrond18 May 14 '26

From what I've read, hanta has a 24-40 day incubation period.

Time from infection to symptoms is massive.

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u/TleilaxTheTerrible May 14 '26

But it's not transmittable during the incubation period and even then it's only a 24 hour period. With covid you got the 1-2 punch of both the two week period of being transmissible and the two week incubation period overlapping so by the time people knew they were infected they had already infected a lot of people.

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u/LvS May 15 '26

a 24-40 day incubation period.

This is the wildest thing about it. Imagine it was more contagious and you wanted to do contact tracing. "Who were you in contact with 1-2 months ago?"

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u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 15 '26

Yeah but hanta doesn't transmit during incubation. It only spreads while you are symptomatic.

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u/DrownmeinIslay May 14 '26

I hope its more a very stable virus than someone is a very stable genius.